Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-17
BUCKLEY TALKS P0INTEDLY
He Challenges His Accusers to
Produce Tangible Evidence.


claim to have had the Information au-
thoritatively, that Little Pete" when
examined by the Grand Jury, gave no
information duplicating any one in
any jury bribing. Those persons, how
ever, who are alleged to have been
guilty of such offenses and whose ac-
tions have been investigated by the
jury are stated to be preparing state
ment that will startle the community
by the revelations proposed to to
made. Further, it is said that "Little
Pete" can neither read nor write Chi
nese. "Pete" came to California when
very young and was educated at a
Chinese Mission in this city.
G. A. Buckley went up to his Liver
more ranch yesterday morning. Be
fore his departure he said he would
have something to say before long.
He remarked that he had borne with
everything in silence, waiting for his
accusers to bring forth the evidence
upon which they based their accusa-
tions. but that he did not propose to
remain quiet forever under these i'm
putations.
"If the Grand Jury has anything
tangible upon which to base the
charges against me-" said he to an
Alta reporter, ''let me be proceeded
against in the regular legal way, that
| may have the opportunity OF de-
Tending myself AMI showing the falsity
of the accusations. l don't propose
to appear at the bar OF hostile news
papers and make myself a voluntary
defendant. They constitute them
selves judge, jury, prosecutors and
| witnesses, besides having pronounced
sentence before trial and without tes-
timony. decline to submit myself
to the tender mercies of this self-con-
stituted tribunal. l am abused, and
space is given to every idle fellow in
town to bawl at me in virtuous indig-
nation. 1t may be Interesting, some
time, to inquire into the lives of some
of the persons who are airing their
lungs so Justify at my expense.
81 am now and always have been
willing for the grand jury to make
the fullest investigation of my alleged
connection with Little Pete. l have
never had anything to do with Pete or
any of his agents, and no proof has
been produced to show that l did
have. An alleged letter from one
Chinaman to another, telling him to
go and see a blind devil-no name
mentioned-is made peg on which
to hang all the crimes in the calendar.
Somebody, l don't know who, sends a
telephone message up to me at Liver
more, saying that he wished to see
me on important business-no bust
ness specifed-aud | tell the operator
to direct the party to go to Mr.. Dris-
coll, who attends to my business. As
serting that the sender of the message
was Little Pete, which may be true,
for all | know, it is cried out that the
business could be nothing less than
bribing judges and juries.
"This lawyer Mowry has told a
lot of stories which, he says, We're
told him by Pete. These stories he
has been telling, day after day, to the
newspapers for week, but he does
not produce any proof. l might lay
any crime at any mans door in the
same way-by saying that some ire
sponsible convict had told me SO.
Pete has been brought back from
prison and examined by the Grand
Jury, but his evidence does not appear
to be sought after. Ny enemies, to
serve their own purposes, make
Mowry the keeper of his conscience,
and take the Chinamen's testimony
from his lips and refuse it from
Pete's.
After this goes on for a week crea-
ture named Nygh crawls out and
throws dirt on the grave of Dave Re-
gensberger because he was friend OF
mine. Nygh knows that Regensberger
is dead and cannot answer. This is
the kind of evidence that industrious
shysters are grinding out for publica-
ton. Well, you know it can't 90 on
this way very long. Something defin-
ite must be produced, and | challenge
my accusers to the proof. Having
nothing but what they manufacture
themselves, they are only seeking to
| THROW lHuu ~ ihe tiiio ouSli oho ooiuhih'
OF hostile papers,
Mr.. Buckley spoke with more en-
phasis than usually characterizes his
conversation, and seemed to feel
strongly about some of the individual
attacks leveled at him.
District Attorney Stonehill is still
confined to his residence by illness,
and sees no one ON business, except
his deputies in regard to urgent mat,
ters. His physician having prescribed
extreme quiet in his present shattered
nervous state, no one is admitted ex-
cept two or three intimate personal
friends. The recent newspaper at
tacks have augmented his nervous
affection and greatly retarded his re-
covery. While the doctor, says the
malady is not danEerouS, ot s. dstrhsd de lmsls{f
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